- Pliomys
Taxobox
name = "Pliomys"
fossil_range =
regnum =Animal ia
phylum =Chordata
classis =Mammal ia
ordo =Rodent ia
familia =Cricetidae
subfamilia =Arvicolinae
tribus =Pliomyini
genus = "Pliomys"
genus_authority = Méhely, 1914
subdivision_ranks = Species
subdivision = see text"Pliomys" is an extinct genus of forest
voles , subfamilyArvicolinae , tribePliomyini (Musser and Carleton, 2005). One member is the extinct species "Pliomys episcopalis ". The genus was described by Méhely in 1914, and is paraphyletic with respect to "Dinaromys " [cite web|title= Mikko's Phylogeny Archive|url=http://www.fmnh.helsinki.fi/users/haaramo/Metazoa/Deuterostoma/Chordata/Synapsida/Eutheria/Rodentia/Myomorpha/Clethrionomyini.htm|accessdate=2007-09-02 ] .References
*Musser, G. G. and M. D. Carleton. 2005. Superfamily Muroidea. Pp. 894-1531 "in" Mammal Species of the World a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference. D. E. Wilson and D. M. Reeder eds. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore.
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